Head of the Charles 1998

Solo

Not so Solo

Not so not so Solo

(boats with 4 people in them)

The roaring crowd

Working hard

Preparation for Life

Why is this regatta so important? Harvard University visits prep
schools worldwide looking for people who can pull its boats to victory.
Hundreds of thousands of people turn out to watch. Is it merely to see
people row 3 miles up the river?

Head of the Charles is much more than that. Women, you see, are allowed
to be coxswains on boats rowed by men. Thus the experience of a young
man rowing in Head of the Charles is likely to be

he and all of the other men that he can see are working as hard as
they possibly can

a woman who herself is doing no work is shouting at the top of her
lungs demanding that they work harder

Let no one say that Ivy League colleges do not prepare their men for the
harsh realities of the real world.